"Variation to the Almost Infinite" (2014) is an unscored electroacoustic composition featuring acousmatic sound created by the physical and electronic manipulation of amplified objects, layering of audio feedback generated by my electronically-processed accordion, and generative-processing of sampled instruments.

Variation to the Almost Infinite

song 3 of 10 
album: i usually go by angel 
2022

imbp

Recorded a storm inside the cabin to the left on the picture. Did not bring heavy recording equipment to record outside. Some metal is making a noise, but the sound of the wind comes through quite nicely.

Microphones: DPA 4060
Pre-amp: DPA MMA-A
Recorder: iPhone 13 Pro with Harmonicdog MultiTrack DAW

Storm In A Cabin By The Glacier

An invitation for a sensorial promenade around the Martigues territory of the Étang de Berre. 

***Best to listen first without preconceptions before reading about context below.
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This artistic research/ speculative ethnography project was made possible with the support of the Association "par ce passage, infranchi" who invited me for a residency along the Étang de Berre to stay at the Tetrodon of Marseille between October 2021-November 2022. https://www.passage-infranchi.org/2022/06/13/residences-au-tetrodon-de-martigues/

This is part of a larger postdoctoral research project called ECOS (Observation sensible des paysages pollué). A Multi-modal research project of La Fabrique des écritures ethnographique (CNRS, Centre Norbert Elias) Marseille, France.
https://lafabriquedesecritures.fr

Furthermore, this is part of an in-progress co-creation along Étang de Berre the with composer & environmental sound recordist Mike Bullock.
https://soundcloud.com/mikebullock

CONTEXT
Situated between Marseille and the Camargue nature reserve is a zone known as the Étang de Berre, taking its name from the sublime and enormous brackish lagoon that sits at its center. Over the last century, municipalities around the lagoon (Martigues, Fos-sur-mer, Saint-Chamas) along with the French government have invested heavily in petrochemical and energy industries making the area one of the most important economic hubs of France on one hand, and an ecological sacrificial zone on the other. 

Anthropic impacts on this fragile ecosystem from air pollution and soil and water contamination have been only recently gaining attention. Human, plant, animal, and aquatic lifeworlds are entangled socially by these industrial toxins that are, for the most part, invisible and inaudible. How can we transmit these tainted, yet nearly imperceptible frequencies of this ethnographically complex territory? This sonic sensory ethnography attempts towards evoking these dilemmas and seeking out a way of sharing new kinds of anthropological knowledge.

Tainted frequencies: A sonic ethnography of the Étang de Berre

Initial Mid-Side (MS) tests using the new Sennheiser MKH 8030 figure-8 microphone as the Side. 

1.  Mid is a Rycote HC-15 short shotgun mic. 
2. - 5. Mid is a Sennheiser MKH 8020 omni mic.

2) 07.01 Bookmill Outside Table - Footbridge Overhead (balanced)

A hydrophonic recording that was made under and on the waters of the Paiva River at Nodar, Portugal. It features filtering created by placement of objects and movement of the hydrophones in the riverbed’s rocky crevices. The recording later became part of my 12-channel sound design for Symptom, a multi-disciplinary work directed by US-based choreographers The Body Cartography Project, presented in 2011 at CounterPulse, SF in 2012 and in 2011 at The Coil Festival, NYC/

UnderTheRiverPaiva

Field recording of a small dormouse sniffing the microphones - tree ears setup. Best experienced with quality headphones.

ASMR Small rodent sniffs your brain

Mixed by Via App & Stud1nt
Mastered by Stud1nt
https://viaappp.bandcamp.com/

Via App - Toxicon

The title refers to constructivism in architecture. As I visited my favorite  places in Mantyluoto Port I heard a weak sound somewhere from the distant in the otherwise rather silent harbor. 

Go for the sound, and specially weak sounds, is something I've learned during my [short] life as a field recordist.

Well, I found a big storage of ugly made corrugated steel and a place where the seams of the plates were resonating in the light wind. The wind was dying, so this is an uncut and unprocessed track from the beginning of the recordings; after half an hour there was just some few fragments left from this beautiful drum concert.

Headphones recommended even here, as there's nice spatial movements in the sounding.

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/191026b/

(AT4022 ab60cm, MixPre3, 24/48, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Constructive - 26/10/2019 - Mantyluoto Port

Going through old DATtapes (con´t)
This is a track from Mellansel, Sweden, in June 1990. It was around midnight and totally dark. I couldn´t see anything. 
But what is happening here? A mating? A predator?
Telinga PROIII stero DATmic and a Sony TCD-D10 DATmachine.
I´m sorry for handling noise. Had to keep clouds of mosquitos away.

Mystery of 1990

Here is the preview of my latest 12-track album with field recordings of the Iberian Wolf and their surroundings in Picão, Portugal.
You can listen to the full tracks here: https://melissapons.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-soundscapes

If you'd like to purchase, 50% of the profit will go towards Grupo Lobo, a NGO that focuses on rehabilitating wolves that cannot go back to the wild.

I hope you enjoy this album!

buy on bandcamp

Wolf Soundscapes 06 Gerês

Ears In Space is mostly field recordings.
mikebullock.com || mikebullock.bandcamp.com || earsin.space

2) 07.01 Bookmill Outside Table - Footbridge Overhead (balanced)

Mike Bullock / Ears In Space